OF THE LENNI LENAPE INDIANS. I.; 



gua^es, and as such it is useful to philologists and entitled 

 to respect. 



The next performance that appeared on a comprehensive 

 scale on the subject of languages was the Mithbidatbs, 

 the glory of our science. I have spoken of it at large in 

 my Report to the Historical Committee, made in the year 

 1819. on tin progress then made in the investigation com- 

 mitted to me respecting the character and gra nmatical forms 

 of the languages of the American [ndi ns*. Excellent as 

 the Mifhridates was at the time when it was published, Buch 

 is the progress which the philological science has made 

 since that period, that it would require to be almost end rel) 

 written anew. Hut Vateb is no more, and who will ven- 

 ture to assume his vacant plac< f ? 



About the same ti ue appeared at Madrid, in sj v octavo 

 volumes. "A catalogue of all the known languages, classed 

 according to the diversity of their idioms and dialects." by 

 the Ahl>e Don Lorenzo HervasJ. It had been before pub- 

 lished in Italian at Cesena, in the Roman states, as pari of 

 a great encyclopedical performance, by the same author, 

 entitled "An idea of the universe." in ;> i volumes quarto. 

 The live last volumes (except the I7'h which treats of the 

 arithmetic of nations) relate exclusively to languages. The 

 17th volume contains the catalogue above mentioned. The 

 18th is a treatise on the origin, formation, mechanism, and 

 harmony of languages. The tilth i- entitled •• \ polyglot 

 vocabulary ol more than one hundred and fifty languages." 

 And lastly, the ^tst volume is a practical essa) on lan- 

 guages, with prolegomeua, and the lord's prayer in more 

 than three hundred languages and dial* dsi. It 1- probable 

 that the Spanish translation, though it would seem that it 

 only bears the title of the 17th volume in the Italian, con. 



* Historical Transact s, Vol. 1. p. nix. 



f Professor Vater died it Halle on the 16th of March 1 

 J Discourssur I'Etude Philosophiqoe des Langues, par M. de Volnej 

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